You thought you'd make enough out of it to buy control.
I am a fairly rich man, but to buy control of shipping line was quite beyond my means.
On his way out the door, he bought control of an Enron pipeline business.
The workers borrowed money and bought control of the company.
In most corporate deals, it costs extra to buy control of a company.
Dreyfuss later bought full control of the team and kept it until his death in 1932.
The stock sells at a reasonable price and you could easily buy control.
Two hundred million crowns would buy control of her father's company.
Boston Properties has a contract to buy control of the other two sites.
The family bought control of Braniff in 1983 for $35 million.